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(DIR) Post #B0ERA3IiGYXmHQYiMC by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T05:57:39Z
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"Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks said.“Somehow the reduction in enthusiasm of the global north is showing that the global south is moving,” Corrêa do Lago told reporters in Belém, where #COP30 is taking place. “It is not just this year, it has been moving for years, but it did not have the exposure that it has now.”"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/rich-countries-have-lost-enthusiasm-for-tackling-climate-crisis-says-cop30-chief
(DIR) Post #B0ERA4NiFS8ZdDuDmy by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T06:02:24Z
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"Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UNFCCC, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries, in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis.“Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP,” he said.“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.” "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/it-will-never-be-forgiven-un-climate-chief-warns-world-to-act-or-face-disaster
(DIR) Post #B0ERA589SnHfxFdJAm by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-12T09:12:31Z
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"Private adaptation finance undisputedly has a role in providing the upfront finance for major adaptation investments. And while there is scope to increase current adaptation funding, it is not enough.More international public climate finance is required to increase grants and highly concessional finance for particularly vulnerable countries, and to play a smaller but catalytic role in other developing countries."Grants.Concessional finance.NOT profit-making loans.https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/11/10/how-much-can-business-contribute-to-financing-climate-resilience/
(DIR) Post #B0ERA5tecBHWKZrFDM by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T08:59:22Z
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Are climate talks and climate policy failing?In short: No."In instance after instance, sober realists have been proved wrong, while the wildest hopes of campaigners have been exceeded.The problem is not that we fail to hit the objectives we set for ourselves. It’s that the drumbeat of bad-faith nihilism encourages us to forget the progress we’ve already made, and lower our ambitions for the future."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-13/how-the-world-is-quietly-winning-on-climate
(DIR) Post #B0ERA6jlUQxuwCErRI by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T09:00:33Z
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"The evidence of nearly three decades of climate diplomacy is that when we set ourselves an objective, more often than not we will hit it. Consider the European Union’s first pledge under the 2015 Paris Agreement to cut emissions in 2030 to 40% below levels in 1990.Plenty scoffed at the time.In fact, greenhouse pollution last year was already 37% below 1990, and on current trends the EU may achieve a 54% cut, almost enough to hit a stricter target passed in 2020."https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-13/how-the-world-is-quietly-winning-on-climate
(DIR) Post #B0ERA7lvdsI49CG6S0 by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-14T09:17:11Z
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But progress on climate action would be MUCH faster without the meddling of the fossil fuel industry.Kick them out."More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for COP30, according to an analysis by a coalition of environmental and social justice groups.The group’s review of people granted access to COP30 found that fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate talks outnumber the delegations from nearly every country ([except host country Brazil). "https://www.newsweek.com/cop30-climate-talks-flooded-with-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-report-11045180
(DIR) Post #B0IrnyvRKNPJjZDHQ8 by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T09:56:43Z
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Google has quietly shut down the curating of climate change news. This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate. Now, an empty page.
(DIR) Post #B0MskPVRoCuS9jQybw by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T09:02:41Z
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"Indigenous peoples from across the Amazon have sailed thousands of kilometers to demand active participation in negotiations. Their message: A green transition that leaves Indigenous voices out is not justice. It’s business as usual.Their journey is both a protest and a demand: an end to fossil fuel extraction, respect for uncontacted peoples, direct financing for community-led projects, and a commitment to climate solutions centered around ancestral knowledge."https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/indigenous-flotilla-sails-to-cop30-to-demand-respect-and-climate-solutions/
(DIR) Post #B0MskR9XgcZlGNCVkG by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T09:26:37Z
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Saudi Arabia "depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’.""In essence, it is a race: Saudi Arabia is trying to sell enough oil to fund its transition from a petrostate before the world stops buying.“Saudi Arabia wants to be a green country,” he says. “It wants to be a player in the climate economy that is currently being forged, but it can only do so with the money that it is currently making from fossil fuel sales.” "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/15/170000-a-minute-why-saudi-arabia-is-the-biggest-blocker-of-climate-action
(DIR) Post #B0MskSMLCWPL0MCFKi by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T09:50:06Z
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"As more countries phase out coal, they offer examples of how to ensure coal-dependent workers, communities, regions and entire countries benefit from a just transition to a coal-free system.[Groups] have been pushing for a fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty. It would legally bind governments to a ban on new fossil fuel expansion and eventually eliminate fossil fuel use."https://theconversation.com/can-the-world-quit-coal-269772
(DIR) Post #B0MskTS38mZIOLsJs0 by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:11:42Z
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"Protesters from across the world, including Indigenous activists from the Amazon region, braved the tropical heat to demand governments step up efforts to combat climate change and protect nature.The protests set apart this conference, hosted in democratic Brazil, from the past three years of summits held in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan — autocratic states with little tolerance for demonstrations."https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/protests-climate-summit-brazil-00653476
(DIR) Post #B0MskUksIHDkR1grqq by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:14:17Z
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"China is stepping into the limelight as a leader in the fight against global warming.Its country pavilion dominates the entrance hall of the sprawling COP30 conference grounds in Belem, executives from its biggest clean energy companies are presenting their visions for a green future to large audiences in English, and its diplomats are working behind the scenes to ensure constructive talks.Those were Washington's roles, but they now reside with Beijing."https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/china-finds-bigger-role-us-sidesteps-brazil-climate-summit-2025-11-15/
(DIR) Post #B0MskVjUeti5T23HKy by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T07:22:34Z
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"The number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP summits has been climbing each year, raising concerns over industry influence on global climate policy.Major oil and gas companies continue expanding production while participating in negotiations, prompting activists to demand bans, accountability, and stricter transparency rules."https://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/The-Fossil-Fuel-Lobby-Is-Under-Scrutiny-at-COP30.html
(DIR) Post #B0MskWioyslaXEkFvc by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-17T07:48:35Z
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Fossil fuel phase-out road mapPossibly."Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last week called for world leaders to prepare a road map to “overcome dependence on fossil fuels.”Spearheaded by Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva, countries including the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Colombia and Kenya signaled their support to try to agree on the outlines of a path away from fossil fuels."https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-13/a-fossil-fuel-fight-brews-at-cop30-as-delegates-draft-road-map
(DIR) Post #B0MskXSYErLWp48mCu by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-18T08:00:57Z
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"South Korea, Australia’s third-biggest market for coal burned to generate electricity, announced at the Cop30 climate conference in Brazil that it was joining the “Powering Past Coal Alliance”, a group of about 60 nations and 120 sub-national governments, businesses and organisations committed to phasing out the fossil fuel."https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/south-korean-decision-to-close-all-coal-fired-power-plants-by-2040-sounds-alarm-for-australian-exports
(DIR) Post #B0MskYRAbTprr4VBh2 by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-18T08:42:04Z
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"More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at #COP30", some as part of country delegations.“Advocates are already calling for the fossil fuel industry and its disinformation to be banned from future climate talks, and the influence of big ag is similarly toxic … we won’t have sustainable, fair, healthy, or climate-resilient food systems anywhere in the world as long as giant agribusiness and food corporations are making the rules.”https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/big-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-summit
(DIR) Post #B0MskeTAAyzkYzTrdI by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-11-18T08:45:14Z
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"The Belém Action Mechanism (BAM), a proposal for states to drive action on a just transition towards a low-carbon economy.BAM proponents say a new mechanism is needed to require countries to take concrete steps toward a just transition. Right now, global just transition efforts are fragmented and inconsistent."https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/bam-belem-action-mechanism-explainer-cop30
(DIR) Post #B1TWnOeKU3gAVxem0m by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-12-21T13:59:09Z
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@futurebird Also remember that the thieves are often government backed, as in the peeps who sailed east to steal other people's spices, tea, and then land, all protected by the thieves' countries' navies and armies.
(DIR) Post #B1VoTcx1mvUwZN2sds by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-12-22T16:26:43Z
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@Nonilex Prime gaslighting.As if fossil fuel burning does not endanger the east coast population.Of course wind turbine tech is "adversary": to the profits of the fossil fuel industry, eh.
(DIR) Post #B1WF1SumCtGg62mw76 by CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-12-22T16:45:35Z
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@kirk @steinarb @pluralistic Just wondering: why CO2?I mean, nitrogen is super-abundant. Its boiling point is lower, 77K, but it's that at ambient pressure. (You can't offer the plant workers free carbonated drinks on the job though, whereas the CO2 version is a giant Sodastream).